Bidders included private investors from Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, France and Germany.

Although he is considered a mediocre artist, the early work by the future dictator always commands high prices when they go under the hammer, said Weidler Auctioneers.

The art dates from 1904 to 1922 when the Nazi leader worked as a street artist in Vienna and Prague following his time as a solider in World War One.

Despite a ban on Nazi symbols, Hitler’s paintings can be sold under German law provided they do not display any connection to the political leader’s former regime.

The Nazi party ruled Germany as a fascist dictatorship from 1933 to 1945 and was responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people, including jews, gays, gypsies and political dissidents, during the Second World War.

Last year the same auction house sold a watercolour painted by Hitler in 1914 for €129,000 to an unnamed buyer from the Middle East.

The watercolour "Prague in the Fog", painted by Hitler from about 100 years ago Credit: Christof Stache (Getty Images)